FIVE TALES TOLD – EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM GEMS Kategoria: 16 mm, 35 mm, Kokeelliset elokuvat, Lyhytelokuvat, Mestariluokat, Mestariluokka: Mika Taanila Curated and presented by Mika Taanila. In the presence of Johann Lurf. Viewed at The School, Sodankylä, Midnight Sun Film Festival, 15 June 2019 Mika Taanila (MSFF): "The experimental short film screening theme is music and absurdism. We will review the subject through five accumulated angles of attack. The stories of these...

May has been quiet month on travel front in our family. The summer cottage season started already at the end of April with a few days heatwave. Our cottage in Lohja is in finalising phase and hopefully the last details are fixed during this season. We’ve used it already three years, and got it gradually [...]

View 1 View 2 View 3 The photographs were taken at Tremanskärr on April 22nd. (Posting title is from the poem I Left My Head by Lilian Moore.) Posted by Juha Haataja at http://lightscrape.blogspot.com/

Park The photograph was taken at Träskända park in Espoo on April 22nd. (Posting title is from the poem Early Morning, Left-Handed by Hilda Raz.) Posted by Juha Haataja at http://lightscrape.blogspot.com/

Ice The photograph was taken in Luukki on April 13th. (Posting title is from the poem 'One morn I left him in his bed' by Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard.) Posted by Juha Haataja at http://lightscrape.blogspot.com/

Mitä teen alueelle kompostien ja lavakaulusten välissä?/ How to use the freed area between the composts and the raised beds? Siirränkö osan pensasaidasta eteenpäin?/Should I move part of the hedge forward? Kaivoin ylös kirsikkapuun kannon, en juuria./ I removed the stump of the cherry tree, not its roots. Rappusten edestä kuoli alkuperäinen hansaruusu, rodoista Cunningham's White./ The Rosa 'Hansa' in front of the steps died, as did a Rhododendron 'Cunningham's White'. Taas minä...

River 1 River 2 The photograph was taken in Luukki by Lakistonjoki river on April 13th. (Posting title is from the poem Left the House by Gottfried Benn.) Posted by Juha Haataja at http://lightscrape.blogspot.com/

View The photograph was taken in Luukki on April 7th. (Posting title is from the poem (This Line Intentionally Left Blank) by J. Allyn Rosser.) Posted by Juha Haataja at http://lightscrape.blogspot.com/

Lake 1 Lake 2 The photographs were taken in Luukki on April 7th. (Posting title is from the poem A Lullaby, for the Fir Tree Growing in My Left Lung by Lisa Grove.) Posted by Juha Haataja at http://lightscrape.blogspot.com/

The Triangle has 10 episodes, available from The Triangle’s page at Serial Box starting April 24th. Publisher: Serial Box 2019 Writers: Dan Koboldt, Mindy McGinnis, and Sylvia Spruck Wrigley. Format: eARC In the previous episode, our heroes shipwrecked on a mysterious island in the middle of a storm. They also found a little girl, Olivia, […]

Swamp 1 Swamp 2 The photographs were taken at Tremanskärr swamp on April 7th. (Posting title is from the poem Snake Oil, Snake Bite by Dilruba Ahmed.) Posted by Juha Haataja at http://lightscrape.blogspot.com/

Not totally sure whats going on, if I am standing still in space or what, as time seems to go faster day by day and year by year. So just like swish! April went by and here is what it looked like, compressed to one tiny second per day:

Swamp 1 Swamp 2 Swamp 3 The photographs were taken at Tremanskärr swamp on April 7th. (Posting title is from the poem The Snake Doctors by Frank Stanford.) Posted by Juha Haataja at http://lightscrape.blogspot.com/

Dead Reckoning. Humphrey Bogart. Kuumat paikat / Heta dagar. John Cromwell, US 1947 Print source: Library of Congress, Culpeper, VA Running time: 102 minutes The Nitrate Picture Show (NPS), George Eastman Museum, Dryden Theatre, Rochester, 5 May 2019. NPS: About the print This copyright deposit print from the Library of Congress does show some changes with the audio track, as it switches from variable area to variable density midway through reel—listen for change in volume. There are slight...

View 1 View 2 View 3 The photographs were taken on April 6th near lake Myllyjärvi south of Luukki. (Posting title is from the poem Larry Levan (snake) by Valerie Martínez.) Posted by Juha Haataja at http://lightscrape.blogspot.com/